To be fully accurate, Leopard doesn't run on a
machine that slow. _I
believe the cutoff was 867MHz. _And as was announced at WWDC on
Monday, Snow Leopard doesn't support any of the PPC machines.
867MHz is indeed the cutoff. I kind of found it artificial myself, but
as I say, I don't use Leopard on PPC anyway.
It's a cold, windy, x86 Mac world now.
Unless I'm mistaken, Leopard doesn't run on G3 macs at all, no matter
how slow they are. I thought it only supported G4 and G5. :D
Am I correct in my thinking?
Effectively, yes, because I don't believe Apple has ever released a G3
of that speed, part of the reason I believe the 867 number to be arbitrary
(it gives them a convenient way to exclude G3s from Leopard's constituency
without having to ban them by name). However, I am fairly certain that
there's nothing in Leopard that demands AltiVec, so if you fool the
Installer with OpenFirmware it will probably work. This thread
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=4be4aa41116f02bf359983d40387ab…
claims that swapping out the hard disks from a successful install lets it
run on a G3, but it crashes a lot. However, I wonder if that is more due to
unexpected hardware being present/absent than a processor limitation.
Nevertheless, I'm sure its performance on a G3 would be charitably called
pedestrian. For the record, I believe Apple's fastest G3 was ~700MHz.
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